Frederick C. Weyand

Frederick C. Weyand

Frederick Carlton Weyand (born September 15, 1916 in Arbuckle , California , † February 10, 2010 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was a general in the US Army , commanding general of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam and thus commander in chief of the US troops in the Vietnam War between 1972 and 1973. From 1974 to 1976 Weyand was the 27th Chief of Staff of the Army .

Military career

Weyand received his officer license and the appointment of second lieutenant in 1938 by the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of California, Berkeley . He graduated from university in 1939 and married Arline Langhart in 1940. From 1940 to 1942 he was called to active service and served in the 6th US Artillery Regiment. In June 1941 Weyand was promoted provisionally to First Lieutenant , in February 1942 to Captain and in November 1942 to Major . In 1942 he graduated from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and then served from 1942 to 1943 as an adjutant of the Port Defense Command in San Francisco . In 1944 he served in the office of the Chief of Intelligence (dt about. Head of the intelligence service ) in the General Staff of the War Department . From 1944 to 1945 Weyand was employed as assistant to the chief of staff for the intelligence service of the China-Burma-India theater of war. He then worked for the military intelligence service in Washington, DC until 1946 and was promoted to interim Lieutenant Colonel in March 1945 . In July 1948 he was promoted to permanent captain. From 1946 to 1949 Weyand was Chief of Staff of the US Army Intelligence Service in the Central Pacific. In 1950 he graduated from the Infantry School in Fort Benning and then served as a battalion commander in the 7th US Infantry Regiment and later as Chief of Staff ( G-3 ) of the 3rd US Infantry Division in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951.

From 1952 to 1953 Weyand served on the faculty of the Infantry School at Fort Benning and graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College that same year . He then served as a military assistant in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Finance from 1953 to 1954 . Weyand was then used as assistant to the Secretary of the Army until 1957. He was promoted to permanent major in July 1953 and to the rank of colonel in July 1955 . In 1958 he graduated from the US Army War College and commanded the 3rd Combat Group of the 6th US Infantry Regiment in Europe from 1958 to 1959. In 1960 he served in the US commander's office in Berlin . In July 1960 Weyand was promoted to provisional Brigadier General and served as Chief of Staff of the communications zone of the United States Army Europe until 1961 . From 1961 to 1964, he served as the deputy commander and later as the commander of the Department of the Army's Legal Liaison Division . In September 1961 he was promoted to the permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel and in November 1962 to the provisional rank of Major General . He then commanded the 25th US Infantry Division in Hawaii from 1964 to 1966 and during combat operations in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967 . Then, in September 1966, Weyand was promoted to permanent colonel. From 1967 to 1968 he was Deputy, Temporary and Eventually Commanding General of II Field Force, Vietnam .

1968 then followed the use as commander of the office for reserve components until 1969. In August 1968 Weyand was promoted to permanent Brigadier General and then Major General and Provisional Lieutenant General and finally in October 1970 to Provisional General . Between 1969 and 1970 he was a military advisor to the Paris peace talks. In 1970 Weyand served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Troop Development. Then he was from 1970 to 1973 successively Deputy Commander and finally Commanding General of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), succeeding General Creighton Abrams . Under his command, the MACV was dissolved on March 29, 1973. In 1973 he was deployed as the commanding general of the US Army in the Pacific and served as deputy chief of staff of the Army between 1973 and 1974 . On October 3, 1974, Weyand succeeded General Creighton Abrams as the 27th Chief of Staff of the Army . He held this post until September 30, 1976, when he retired in October.

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of the Military Awards:

• Distinguished Service Cross 83 X9
• Defense Distinguished Service Medal
• Silver Star
• Legion of Merit (2 ×)
• Bronze Star (3 ×)
• Army Commendation Medal (2 ×)

literature

• Frederick Weyand , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1976 of May 10, 1976, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ armytimes.com, February 11, 2010: Former Army Chief of Staff Weyand dead at 93 ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2010 
2. ↑ sacbee.com, February 12, 2010: Former Army Chief of Staff Frederick Weyand dies  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2010